Avid Sibelius Ultimate Crossgrade Overview
Upgrade to a Sibelius Ultimate annual license (1 year). Perpetual license crossgrade from Sibelius First, Sibelius, Sibelius Ultimate, Sibelius TradeUps, G7, Instrumental Teacher Edition or Sibelius Student to an annual license (1 year). Professional music notation program, including PhotoScore Lite, AudioScore Lite, including Avid UpgradePlan (1 year). Delivered as an online download.
- Compose, arrange & publish at any size & complexity.
- Create worksheets and notation exercises for students
- Use for 2 devices (e.g. desktop + laptop)
- Access to all new versions & standard support via subscription or renewable 1 year subscription
Notation
- normal , double accidentals, quarter notes, bracketed
- complete set
- bar numbers: Choice of versch. Formats
- bar line types: single, double, repeat, dotted, old music
- bar lines, irregular: yes
- Bars, crossing bars: yes
- Bar/pause groupings customizable
- Brackets and chord loading: customizable
- Chord symbol presentation and MIDI/text input fully customizable
- Stitch notes (small): yes
- Dotted notes: single, double, triple
- Guitar chord grids
- Guitar scale grid
- Guitar tablature: fully customizable
- Instruments: fully customizable
- Jazz articulations: Scoops, Falls, Doits and Plops
- Lines, user-definable: yes
- Note values: 512th note (7 bars) to double whole note
- Noteheads, user-definable
- Ossia staves
- Page numbers: customizable
- Note lines: unlimited number
- N-tols: All
Playback
- Advanced notation interpretation: yes
- MIDI data editing
- Integrated gesamplete sounds: 36 GB library
- Espressivo 2.0: Custom rhythmic feel
- Live Tempo: Record, edit, delete & playback
- Playback markers for specified repetitions
- Playback of forks, rits & accels: adjustable
- Playback of fermatas: adjustable
- Words that affect output (e.g. legato): editable
Aids
- Notes
- Arrangement: automatic arranging and orchestrating
- Comments (notes)
- Comparison of different scores and versions
- Copy and paste into Word and other programs
- Timecode displays: Customizable format
- Editing dynamic parts: complete
- Edit terms menus
- Exporting the change log of a score
- Export lyrics as a text file
- Filters for editing similar objects
- Search
- Bundling of lines
- Export of graphics
- Highlighting music
- Ideas hub: 2000+ ideas in library with editing function
- Import MusicXML files
- Instrument change
- Merge scores
- Keyboard shortcuts: customizable
- Number of verses: unlimited
- Lyrics from a text file
- Note input options: full
- Panorama - continuous view
- Paper and desktop textures: 60+
- Voice excerpt
- Insert as cue
- Plug-ins: 140+ included
- Inspector window for editing individual objects
- Study characters: fully customizable
- Repeat structures: fully customizable
- Rulers
- Moving notes and rests
- Special page breaks
- Timeline windows
- Swapping voices
- Versions
- Video including timecode and hit points
- Magnetic layout display options
- Page margins, note colors, full screen and more
- Worksheet Wizard
Publish
- Advanced layout feature
- Automatic layout options
- Editing fonts: full
- Editing of stave types
- Editing of text styles
- Stave rules, editing of several hundred
- headers/footers
- Import / export of style sheets
- Intelligent rests
- Fully customizable magnetic layout
- manage dynamic voices
- manuscript papers: many included, some can be created
- customizable staff sizes
- note spacing rules: customizable
- reset object position/design
- Staff spacing
Export and share
- WAV, AIFF and MP3
- Optimized export to Avid (app available in iTunes App Store)
- Sending a score via email (.sib or .pdf)
- Export graphic files: common bitmap and vector formats
- MIDI file export - type 0 and type 1 for each device
- MusicXML file export (compressed or uncompressed)
- Export for previous software version
- Publish directly to ScoreExchange.com
- Export a Scorch (browser plug-in) web page
- Publish to YouTube, Facebook, SoundCLoud
- Sibelius Cloud Sharing: unlimited up to 1GB of storage space
- Export a score as a video file
System requirements
Minimum requirements:
Windows
- 64-bit Windows 7 (SP1 or later), Windows 8.1 (not Windows RT) or Windows 10
- 1+ GB of RAM
- 1 GB of hard drive space for Sibelius software
- DVD-ROM drive (for Media Pack only)
- Internet connection required for download and activation
Mac
- Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12 or 10.13
- 1+ GB of RAM 1 GB HD space for Sibelius software; 36 GB additional space for Sibelius Sounds library (optional installation)
- DVD-ROM drive (for Media Pack only)
- Internet connection required for download and activation
Recommended specs for the Sibelius Sounds library:
Windows
- 4+ GB RAM
- 36 GB hard drive space (SSD preferred)
- ASIO compatible audio interface or sound card
Mac
- 4+ GB of RAM
- 36 GB of hard drive space (SSD preferred)
- the 10 GB SIbelius Sounds library is an optional installation
An internet connection is required to download and activate the software.